I'm not sure why this whole "lone drunk Russkie" thing keeps getting repeated. Maybe it's because Russkies are known to be drunks, but that doesn't mean it was one guy shooting it down without orders. One of the recordings of the shootdown and crash was filmed by the "separatists" themselves, and it is pretty clear they were operating as a unit, and were pretty gleeful about it too.
Oh, I wasn’t implying a LONE drunk at all!